Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Integration Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 66 87
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 15 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.14% 0.99% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.17% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £215 £434 £276
25th Percentile £393 £447 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £493
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -1.17% -17.79%
75th Percentile £573 £522 £765
90th Percentile £625 £531 £800
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.73% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £62.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year - +267.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Integration Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.03% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Integration Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in Hampshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in Hampshire

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Farnborough - 7 £550 - 1
Havant -9 2 £563 +7.14%
Southampton - 2 £288 -
Gosport - 2 - -
Integration Testing
South East

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) OCI
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) BGP
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) MPLS
1 3 (20.00%) OSPF
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Database Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Traffic Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) ONNX
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.67%) SCADA
2 1 (6.67%) State Machine
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Validation
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (13.33%) API Development
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Defect Management
5 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Test Management
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) OCP
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) HP ALM
2 2 (13.33%) Rsyslog
2 2 (13.33%) SCOM
3 1 (6.67%) Cilium
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Nokia
2 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) NVIDIA